Natasja, That sounds like the expected behavior -- the cartoons will need to be in the same object in order to be connected. You can use the "show" and "hide" commands to turn segments on & off during the movie.
Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:war...@delsci.com > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Natasja Brooijmans > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 7:09 AM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [PyMOL] cartoon question > > I created several objects of my full-lenght protein. I want > to be able to turn on & off the representation of each of the > objects. Unfortunately, if I have 2 sequential objects that I > want to represent by cartoons in different colors, the > cartoon doesn't run continuously, i.e. there's a gap between > the yellow(obj1) and the orange(obj2), even though they're > defined as residue 1-10(obj1) and 11-14(obj2). If I color the > residues in the full object, everything looks o.k., but for > my purposes (a movie) they need to be in separate objects so > I can turn things on & off at will. > > Thanks, > > Natasja >
